Yujian Guo 郭宇剑

Yujian Guo’s practice often focuses on mythology and personal memory, blending literary narrative, philosophical inquiry, and mystical semiotics. Through experiments in assembling fragmented imagery, he constructs immersive fields for the viewer’s mental wandering. His work favors delicate, subtle techniques to create a romantic and lingering pictorial atmosphere, serving both as a visual translation of the divinatory logic of Tarot cards and as a metaphorical response to the epistemic uncertainty of modern cognition.

 

He has held solo exhibitions at venues including Guangzhou K11, Shanghai  Baiwork Space, Nanjing East gallery, Changsha Arch Gallery, Nanjing Powerlong Art Center, and Beijing Enjoy Art Museum. Since 2013, he has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Pingshan Art Museum in Shenzhen, China; the West Bund Art Center in Shanghai; Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence; Tianjin Binhai Art Museum; and the Blue Palace in St. Petersburg.

 

Yujian Guo, born in 1992 in Changsha, Hunan

 

Education

2015 Painting Department of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in Italy

 

Solo Exhibitions

2025 La grande Bellezza, X Contemporary Art, Changsha

2025 Petit Panthėon Portatif, East Gallery, Nanjing

2024 Voice of The Moon, K11, Guangzhou

2024 Pomona’s Afternoon, Baiwork Space, Shanghai

2023 Dive into Midnight, East Gallery, Nanjing

2022 Dangerous Complicity, Arch Gallery, Changsha

2022 Where the Puzzles Spread Out, Powerlong Art Center, Nanjing

2019 The days of The Remains, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing

2018 Awake or Asleep, Advance Art Museum, Changsha

2017 Via della Colonna 25, ArtOBJ, Changsha

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Feel It, Levant Art, Shanghai

2025 Forest Clearing, X Contemporary Art, Changsha

2024 The season has not arrived, Atmosphere, Nanjing

2024 The Extraction & The Perception, Guardian Art, Beijing

2024 Buzz Of The Universe, Gravity Art Space, Shanghai

2024 Alice Dreams of Butterflies, X Contemporary Art, Changsha

2023 Nomadism in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Humidity, Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen

2023 Daily Narrative, Atmosphere, Nanjing

2022 Born in 1992: China-Korea Young Artists Exchange Exhibition, Bund 18 Art Space, Shanghai

2021 Everything is Promising, Jingu Li Art Gallery, Suzhou

2021 River of Narcissus, Wú Space, Beijing

2020 Mind the Gap, Seeyoo Space, Hangzhou

2020 Creating Towards Life: Italy Touring Exhibition, Rovereto Civic Library, Italy

2020 Bloom of Youth, Guangdong Provincial Academy of Painting, Guangzhou

2019 Encouraging Surprise, ArtOBJ, Changsha

2019 Link Heaven and Earth, Space Station, Beijing

2018 Vision Field, Binhai Art Museum, Tianjin

2017 Spring, Blue Palace Gallery, St. Petersburg

2016 The 2nd China-Italy Young Artists Joint Exhibition, OCAT Institute, Beijing

2016 I come from Italy, The 10th Space, Beijing

2015 Erasmus Environmental Theme Exhibition, Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence

2013 The 1st China-Italy Young Artists Joint Exhibition, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

2013 Wet Painting: Art Exhibition, Fratelli Frediani Gallery, Florence